I found more info in this news report:
Tiana McElveen was charged with unlawful conduct towards a child after footage showed her striking achild and throwing him twice in Sumter County, South Carolina.
www.dailymail.co.uk
McElveen was fired last Friday over a separate incident after staffers confronted her about leaving food on the ground for children to 'eat like dogs'
Also found more info here, including the daycare's response to a news organization.
Per the explanation in the video, the attack was reported by a different employee only after the attacker was fired over the food incident.
In the assault video, she did indeed do this in front of another staffer. Sup with that? Wasn't that staffer supposed to report the abuse immediately? Was the person who reported the attack the other staffer who was present (and maybe was primarily aiming to cover her ass, having had no plan to report it otherwise, or was just grinding the boot in a bit deeper for personal reasons), or was it a third party who found out about the incident via hearsay?
The name of the daycare is being reported as "Care-A-Lot Daycare Center". That name comes up a lot in Google, it's also all over Facebook, apparently. I'll guess it is a franchise. The youtube video lists the address as 4200 block of Thomas Sumter Highway. That matches web site below, including address:
http://care-a-lotdaycare.com/
Does it mean anything that the kid in the video appears to be white while both the adult attacker and the witness (who appears to have not initially been planning to report the attack) were black? The photos page on the above site is suggestive of a mixed-race child attendance (could swing one way or the other in terms of majority but I can't tell for sure, pics can be set up to portray either way). Did she hit any other children and if so, what were the races of the other kids she assaulted?
All of this put together, does this mean anything for how safe parents should feel about leaving white or light-colored kids at otherwise-professional daycare centers if the caretakers are primarily black? (some mixed-race couples make for pretty light-skinned kids with otherwise African-American facial features).
Also, I wonder how long has the attacker been working there?
.... lot of inferences and questions, here!
I've felt for a long time that parents must have srs talks with their kids about schools and daycares, assuming they attend those (heh). Repeated talks. The kinds of talks that makes kids unable to forget.
Kids need to be hardened against physical and sexual abuse in such places. They must be taught that events involving anyone viewing or touching areas that are normally covered by a bathing suit must be reported back to the parents, regardless of if the areas are on the child or an adult. Also they must be taught that it does not matter if the child feels they in some sense participated in the event.
They must also be taught that any physical attack by an adult must be reported back to the parents, and crucially, it doesn't matter if the kid believes they 'deserved' it, or, witnessed an assault where the other kid 'deserved' it.
If the premise isn't taught this way, the kids won't report events if the adult manipulates them into feeling like a participant or otherwise feeling like a guilty party, which practically all of the abusers will do.
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